Folly Quote by Mason Cooley

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

— John Updike

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

— Horace

And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there…

— Philip Pullman

“I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I…

— Philip Pullman

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

— Norm MacDonald

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

— Charles Simmons

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

— Charles Simmons

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom, than their folly.

— Jonathan Swift

If age imparted wisdom, there wouldn't be any old fools.

— Anonymous

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

— Ram Dass

“Wisdom does not come with the advancing of age, but is a gift God bestows upon whoever is willing to have it, so beware…

— Anonymous